Biblical Hebrew, Second Ed. (Supplement for Advanced Comprehension)

This revised edition of the best-sellingBiblical Hebrew isthoroughly updated and augmented for a new generation of students. Designed for use in a two-semester course, the book's fifty-five lessons are constructed around Biblical verses or segments and arranged in order of increasing complexity. At the successful completion of the course, students will be well equipped to tackle prose passages on their own. Biblical Hebrew ispart of a comprehensive learning program that includes a 3-CD audio program and a companion volume, theSupplement for Enhanced Comprehension. TheCDs present the alphabet, vowels, readings and cantillations of biblical passages, songs to assist with memorizing grammar concepts, selections from Psalms performed in a variety of musical styles, and all the vocabulary words from English to Hebrew. TheSupplement offersreinforcement and review exercises along with more detailed and deeper discussion of topics treated briefly in the textbook.

Vicki Hoffer is lecturer in Biblical Hebrew and Biblical literature at Yale Divinity School. The late Bonnie Pedrotti Kittel was professor of Biblical Hebrew at Yale Divinity School and ordained as a Presbyterian minister. Rebecca Abts Wright is a member of the faculty at the University of the South.